EM-DAT: United Kingdom Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for the United Kingdom produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). It tracks disaster frequency, human impact, and economic damage categorized by year and disaster subtype. The data is provided in XLSX format and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the 'total number of deaths' trends across different 'disaster subtype' categories in the UK
• Comparing 'economic losses (adjusted)' against the 'number of disasters' per year to assess severity
• Evaluating the 'total number of people affected' by specific hazard types over time for risk assessment

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial analysis
• Maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
• Provides granular disaster subtype classifications

Limitations

• Geographic scope is restricted solely to the United Kingdom
• Annual aggregation prevents analysis of specific event-level timestamps
• Economic loss data may be underreported for non-catastrophic events

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT global disaster database

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13.

Geography

United Kingdom